Overview
An atmospheric, haunting novel about a family of bootleggers, their troubled history, and the land that binds them, told with “firebrand intelligence, knife-sharp wit, and reckless heart. I drank this novel like a series of shots - one evening of delirious page-turning."―Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs
“People say we cling to our land, but I like to think it grabs onto us a little bit, too. I like to think we protect each other.” – Rhoda Sawbrook
The Sawbrooks have spent decades criss-crossing the waterways and vast forests between Northern Michigan and Canada to make their way as smugglers. Those hidden routes through the border's nooks and crannies are their legacy, but they no longer pay the bills. The world has changed; the resorts with their fancy clientele are infringing on their space, and the Sawbrooks find themselves deeply fractured, clutching at their past and the last vestiges of a once close family.
Rhoda, the tough-as-nails matriarch, is caring for her dying husband while finding herself bitterly disappointed in her three adult children. The eldest daughter, Lucy, is now a park ranger, working to federally protect the land against her mother’s will, while Buckner, the only boy, is drinking his life away. Jewell, the baby of the family, is her mother’s last hope but when she tries to save them all in one fell-swoop she becomes ensnared in a crime of escalating proportions. The Sawbrooks will have to contend with the old familial ways and the new shifting world, and face each other – and their pain-filled past – to save one of their own.
This book title, The Trouble Up North, ISBN: 9781538776759, by Travis Mulhauser, published by Grand Central Publishing (March 11, 2025) is available in paperback (large print). Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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